One more thing to fix - forecasts are in Knots and actual speed is mph - what's up with that?
I love IW and have used it for 18 years. It's saved me thousands of dollars in gas! It's not always perfect, but predicting wind is almost impossible to do with any accuracy.

]Bottomline... always trust the forecast written text and bullets more than the tables since the forecaster can see exactly what they wrote

Can't, not since they began using "moderately windy" to describe average forecast breezes in the teens (my biggest gear, 6.2 and 115 liters, is useless then) and "windy" to describe my minimum planing threshold of 20-21 mph average. I've got to guess that upper 20s would "extremely windy" ... despite the fact that it's still a lot of fun on that same 6.2 with a smaller board. That's why we need numbers ... because they're much more objective even though they are swags.

]Bottomline... always trust the forecast written text and bullets more than the tables since the forecaster can see exactly what they wrote

Can't, not since they began using "moderately windy" to describe average forecast breezes in the teens (my biggest gear, 6.2 and 115 liters, is useless then) and "windy" to describe my minimum planing threshold of 20-21 mph average. I've got to guess that upper 20s would "extremely windy" ... despite the fact that it's still a lot of fun on that same 6.2 with a smaller board. That's why we need numbers ... because they're much more objective even though they are swags.

Just use the parts of the bullets I have put in bold in this sample forecast and forget the adjectives.

Since this started out as an issue about the later forecasts, I have a suggestion.

How about adding up all those half-hours of sleeping in, now that the forecast is later, and tacking them on to the end of the season? It could add up to a couple extra days of forecasts for those of us that sail on into Autumn (which I think actually starts on September 21st, not when football season opens).

Also, it was shocking to see the use of the F word today in the Onsite Report at Swell. My wife gasped when I read it out loud (she's a teacher so it is even worse for her) and I had to take an extra breath just to get through. I have been functioning on the "ignorance is bliss" notion, up to now.

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